Virgin's 50Mb broadband arriving December 15?

Media Boy · 02-12-2008, 22:54

Virgin Media looks set to launch its 50Mb broadband on December 15 after inviting journalists to a mystery event.

Although the company has thus far declined to give a firm date for the launch of its 50Mb service, it has always maintained that it would be before the end of the year.

Now, journalists have been told to 'hold the date' on December 15 â€“ where the company will almost certainly show off the fastest broadband in the UK.

http://www.techradar.com/news/networ...dec-15--490060

Info from Techradar.

Nhyrvus · 02-12-2008, 23:01

Gimme

any idea for upload speed ?? ?

02-12-2008, 23:04

Any idea how much it'll cost?

Media Boy · 02-12-2008, 23:06

I only know what I have posted on this page.

broadbandking · 02-12-2008, 23:19

Upload is set to be 1.75Mbit whilst been rolled out and should be increasing to 2.5Mbit once roll out is completed, price is Â£52, no special price will be given on this product either, the only people that got a special pricing are the trialist which will end in Feburary I think.

on in an hour! · 02-12-2008, 23:22

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

Virgin Media looks set to launch its 50Mb broadband on December 15 after inviting journalists to a mystery event.

Although the company has thus far declined to give a firm date for the launch of its 50Mb service, it has always maintained that it would be before the end of the year.

Now, journalists have been told to 'hold the date' on December 15 â€“ where the company will almost certainly show off the fastest broadband in the UK.

http://www.techradar.com/news/networ...dec-15--490060

Info from Techradar.

i know a couple of areas that are set for that date but the country (or VM's coverage of the country) is on a staggered release,some areas havent even had a confimed date for UBR updates and the like yet.

broadbandking · 02-12-2008, 23:28

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Originally Posted by on in an hour!

i know a couple of areas that are set for that date but the country (or VM's coverage of the country) is on a staggered release,some areas havent even had a confimed date for UBR updates and the like yet.

The same with all upgrades they have to make sure once a area has been enabled that its got no faults and then they move to the next area I know Dudley had massive issues due to Dudley been a bad part of VM network

Nhyrvus · 02-12-2008, 23:47

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Originally Posted by broadbandking

Upload is set to be 1.75Mbit whilst been rolled out and should be increasing to 2.5Mbit once roll out is completed, price is Â£52, no special price will be given on this product either, the only people that got a special pricing are the trialist which will end in Feburary I think.

Hows that apply to the full package price then ??

BenMcr · 03-12-2008, 00:01

If that is the price, it is Â£15 a month more that the 20Mbit/XL BB

telfordcable · 03-12-2008, 01:07

i had been told it will be 50mb ready for all uk nationwide on the monday, december 15th 2008 and i had been told there will be no need of nationwide roll out but need to sign up online on the 1th december to order 50mb called XXL at Â£52 a month with free router cable (support 50mb) and will be in a 12 months contract. The upload will be 1.2mb. Going up to 2.4mb in 2009. also been told that 50Mb will be STM (traffic management) 12 hours of 16Mb throttling.

BenMcr · 03-12-2008, 01:58

Well that isn't right. Virgin have already stated there will be a staged rollout for a start. http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...-broadband.php

We’ll be bringing it to our cable customers region-by-region – and we’ll be posting the dates for each region on our website closer to the time. Keep your eyes peeled to our website for more details.

Staff have had no briefs on the product, so if you get told anything at the moment it is speculation on the agents part

broadbandking · 03-12-2008, 09:17

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

i had been told it will be 50mb ready for all uk nationwide on the monday, december 15th 2008 and i had been told there will be no need of nationwide roll out but need to sign up online on the 1th december to order 50mb called XXL at Â£52 a month with free router cable (support 50mb) and will be in a 12 months contract. The upload will be 1.2mb. Going up to 2.4mb in 2009. also been told that 50Mb will be STM (traffic management) 12 hours of 16Mb throttling.

All wrong apart from the price, the upload is 1.75Mbit and will increase to 2.5Mbit in 2009, router has not been decided yet as they havent trialed it yet will do in the next few days and it will either be a Dlink or Netgear, as for traffic management this has not been decided.

Agent47 · 03-12-2008, 09:27

So 50mb is going to be STM, what a waste of time getting it then.

broadbandking · 03-12-2008, 09:43

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Originally Posted by Agent47

So 50mb is going to be STM, what a waste of time getting it then.

Whilst its been rolled out NO, after been rolled out no one knows

zing · 03-12-2008, 09:50

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Originally Posted by broadbandking

Whilst its been rolled out NO, after been rolled out no one knows

course we know lol after roll out it will be STM and then I am surmising not long after that application management will be switched one. Of course I am only guessing but I know VM well enough to know they will shaft us. To think if you search back to early this year I used to support VMs stance on STM but that changed when they went to STM nearly all hours of daylight